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RCED-85-103 1 (1985-04-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnqv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RtESTRt6INiW .. oJ4t to ho released outside the * A UTI Oce except on the basis /C C7? Accounting Officecpl by the Offtce o1 Congressional Relations, 3aR' UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 April 4, 1985 RESOURCES, COMMUNITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION B-21 4727 The Honorable Morris K. Udall Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs House of Representatives The Honorable Nick J. Rahall II Chairman, Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs House of Representatives Subject: Analysis of the Department of the Interior's Administration of the Duck Nest Creek Coal Lease Exchange (GAO/RCED-85-103) In a letter dated June 9, 1983, the Chairman of the former Subcommittee on Mining, Forest Management and Bonneville Power Administration, House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, requested our analysis of the subject exchange. The initial focus of that work involved determining whether Interior's decision to exchange the northern portion of the Duck Nest Creek tract was legal or if it violated the criteria established in the enabling statute, Public Law 96-401, 94 Stat. 1701. An additional objec- tive was to determine whether Interior's administrative procedures were adequate to ensure the exchange was properly implemented. On June 11, 1984, we briefed the requester's office on the results of our initial work. On February 28, 1985, we briefed your offices on our evaluation of Interior's exchange administra- tion procedures. As agreed with your offices, we are enclosing with this report an expanded version of the briefing document used at the latter meeting. The material covered in each briefing is discussed separately below. BRIEFING - JUNE 11, 1984 MESSAGE: EXCHANGING THE NORTHERN PORTION OF DUCK NEST CREEK WAS ACCEPTABLE UNDER THE LAW 126794 For federally owned coal deposits to qualify for exchange under the authorizing law, Interior had to determine that for the foreseeable future those lands were unlikely to be separately mined efficiently and economically except by incorporation into the existing mining operation of the company proposing the (005574) RELEASED

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